Act Quote by Scott Aukerman

Comedy clubs were something that came to pass in the '80s, but toward the end of that, in the early '90s, people started doing…

— Eugene Mirman

A lot of the comedians nowadays just do comedy as a stepping stone. Take for example Dane Cook. The guy is huge. The main…

— Gabriel Iglesias

In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.

— Sarah Silverman

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough…

— Patton Oswalt

The '80s was a great decade for comedy.

— Judge Reinhold

I never thought I'd be a comedian. But, growing up, I simply loved watching comedy. The '80s was huge for comedy in the US.…

— Arj Barker

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

— Alexei Sayle

Somewhat naively, I entered the BBC's 'New Talent Competition,' believing it was for people who had never tried comedy before. I remember sitting in…

— Jon Richardson

There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We…

— Bob Newhart

Years ago, there was a variety theatre in every British town, and people paid to go down and see it. Comedy was the main…

— Norman Wisdom

It often seems that, for whatever strange reasons, comedians, in addition to their formal performances, have more comic experiences in real life than other…

— Steve Allen

I used to do comedy during my theatre days, and I was good at that.

— Pankaj Tripathi